The Hamtramck Blowout is a big deal. 200 bands over the course of 3 days at 15 venues. The single best music event of the year (in my honest opinion). If possible I would clone myself like in the movie Multiplicity (yeah, it sucked, so what), and hit up several bars at the same time and see every show I wanted to see. But that’s not possible (that I know of), and so for all of us we have to make some terribly difficult decisions as to who we are going to see.
To help you decide Motor City Rocks is going to attempt the impossible. We want to interview all 200 bands during the month of February to help the fans decide who to give their eye time to on March 3rd – 6th. That’s right, all 200 bands (which I’ll estimate is at least 600 people… but because everyone in Detroit is in three bands, maybe it will be 200 people 3 times…..). Here’s the list of bands featured at the 2010 Hamtramck Blowout:
Bad Party, Bars of Gold, Bat on Fire, Beekeepers, Beverly Fre$h♫, Big Mess, Bill Bondsmen, Black Irish, Black Lodge♫, Blasé Splee♫, Bloodbird, Blue Snaggletooth, Buffay, BUMP♫, Canja Rave, Carjack., Carradine, Chapstik, Citizen Smile, Computer Perfection, Copper Thieves, Cougar the Tiger, Dale Earnhart Jr. Jr., DAS, Decibilt, Detroit Cobras, Devilfish, Divine Comedians, Dog Latin, Dooley Wilson♫, Doop & the Inside Outlaws, Duende!♫, Earwhigs, Electric Fire Babies, Electromags, Elle & the Fonts, Eyer Department♫, F’ke Blood, FAWN, Ferdy Mayne, Fidyrych♫, Flatfoot, Forget, Four-Hour Friends♫, Friendly Foes, Fur, Gorevette, Grande Nationals, Grateful Dads, Grommet, Guerrilla Public, Haley Jane, Hi Speed Dubbing, I, Crime, Illy mack, Invader, Isosceles Mountain, Jamie Register an The Glendales, James & the Rainbros, Jehovah’s Witness Protection Program, Jesus Chainsaw Massacre♫, Johnny Ill, JTX, Karalavara, Keep on Trash, Kielbasa Kings, Kommie Kilpatrick♫, Lac La belle, Le Ren♫, Legendary Creatures, Lettercamp♫, Lightning Love, Los Misntrels Del Diablos, LTAG, Macrame Tiger, Marco Polio & the New Vaccines, Matt Jones, Mean Mother, Michael Seger & Everyone’s Favorite Band, Mick Bassett, Millions of Brazilians, Mirror Twin, Mister, Modernlull, No, Really!, October Babies, Octopus♫, ODAYIN, Old Empire♫, Oscillating Fan Club, Perennials♫, Phantom Shakers, Pigeon, Polish Muslims, Political Heroes, Prussia, Robin Parrent (Violent Ear), Rogue Satelites, Rue Moor Counts, Satin Peaches♫, Sault Ste. Marie, Scarlett Oaks♫, School of Rock, Scott Harrison, Selfsays, 750CC, Sey Lui, Sh! The Octopus, Shakey Jakes, Silverghost, Sisters of Your Sunshine Vapor♫, Sisu Kid, 60 Second Crush, Slow Giant, SMOKE, Snakewing, Solitary States, Space Band, Spitting Nickels♫, Steffie & the Dirty Virgins, Stoopz N Breeze, Superdollar♫, Swamp Sisters♫, Switchblade Justice, The Beggars, The Bitter Inks, The Black List, The Blueflowers, The Codgers, The Cold Wave, The Crooks♫ The Displays♫, The Drags, The Fondas, The Hadituptoheres, The Handgrenades♫, The Hard Lessons, The Juliets, The Kodaks, The Meadowlarks, The Meltdowns, The Mourning Voices, The Mydols, The Phage, The Potions, The Ruggs, The Sights, The Space Heaters, The Summer Pledge, The Sundresses, The Wrong Numbers, They Never Sleep, This is Deer Country, Timothey Monger, Trash Camera, Wolfbait♫, Woodman, WTCM Gold!, Zoos of Berlin
*If you made the cut for Blowout, we want to interview you.
*Even if you don’t consider yourself a “rock” band, we want to interview you.
*If you’ve already been on a Motor City Rocks (or SBS) video, we don’t care, we want to interview you.
♫ = Has made contact about being interviewed.
This is going to be an insanely difficult task, and we’re going to have to start booking everyone ASAP. If you are one of these bands, we aren’t going to come to you. Please come to us. Email me here and we’ll schedule you. There interviews are going to be short and sweet, but we’ll have you on again. PLEASE REPOST! PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!
